Flash 8 sprites stop the stage updating

Question

Posted about this issue before but now it really is causing
me hassel. It's the fact that I have two main Flash 8 sprites on my
stage, one is an animated accordian style menu system which when
the user clicks of a menu Director jumps to the relevant frame with
both Flash sprites staying on the stage. I have also used, a couple
of times, a Flash add banner animation on the main page and found
these did not remove themselves from the stage. Answer on here was
to do the following when jumping to another frame:
sprite(1).visible=FALSE
updateStage
sprite(1).visible=TRUE
Sprite 1 is a large QuickDraw rectangle covering the whole
stage.
Problem with this is it's causing the contents of the main
area of the screen to flash on and off very quickly. As a lot of
the frames jumped too also have QuickTime video playing Direct To
Stage you get a multiple flicker as first QT loads, then the
background is turned on and off. So I tried to modify the routine
to only do this when jumping from a screen that had the flash ad
banners on but know when I jump from a page with regular text and
bitmap sprites and then the flash menu animates, it's not allowing
the screen to update when arriving at the new frame with text and
bitmaps on!
This has been a bug for many years in Director and I am
really annoyed that MM and now Adobe have never bothered to fix
this. I am producing a large corporate catalogue on DVD-ROM and the
client has complained about the flashing. So what do I do? Say, "Oh
sorry, the guys at MM & Adobe couldn't fix this bug and have
left it for years without even bothering, I know they have millions
of dollars but they couldn't spare one programmer to fix this one.
Yeah I know it says on the box that it works seamlesly with Flash
but hey that obviously isn't true!"
Any elgant solutions to this one???
Kevin

Answer 1

> sprite(1).visible=FALSE
> updateStage
> sprite(1).visible=TRUE
I don't know who suggested this, but more reliable is setting
the
backgroung color of the stage to itself forcing a complete
redraw of the
entire stage area (although maybe the above does much the
same thing):
the stageColor = the stageColor
As for QT flashing, this too has a simple enough work-around:
move the
sprite offstage for a frame while the QT engine initialises,
then move
it back for display - something like:
-- behavior attached to QT sprite
property spriteNum
property my
property myLoc
property _initialised
on beginSprite me
my = sprite(spriteNum)
myLoc = my.loc
my.loc = myLoc + 10000
_initialised = 0
end
on exitFrame me
if _initialised then exit
_initialised = initialised + 1
my.loc = myLoc
end